{"id":1728,"date":"2003-08-31T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2003-08-31T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T17:30:56","slug":"no-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"NO COMMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just don&#8217;t know what to say about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2003\/Aug\/08312003\/public_f\/88329.asp\">&#8220;Letter to the Editor&#8221;<\/a> of the Salt Lake Tribune (my old hometown paper):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes, if we just step back from the passions of politics and society for just a moment, we can see just how hysterically surreal our world is. Take, for example, the story &#8220;Sex topics put teacher under fire&#8221; (Tribune, Aug. 27).<br \/>\n    And I quote: &#8220;Alpine School District officials are investigating [an] Orem High School teacher . . . after some parents complained she told their children to be open-minded about sexual orientation and same-sex marriage.&#8221;<br \/>\n    God forbid actual thinking in schools, of all places! I suggest that if you want your kids to think exactly like you (to be narrow-minded), you should home school them. Then you could leave public education to the people who actually appreciate it. <\/p>\n<p>   Matt Shake<br \/>\n   Salt Lake City <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just don&#8217;t know what to say about this &#8220;Letter to the Editor&#8221; of the Salt Lake Tribune (my old hometown paper): Sometimes, if we just step back from the passions of politics and society for just a moment, we can see just how hysterically surreal our world is. Take, for example, the story &#8220;Sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}